- Cuneiform Numbers
Demonstrates the vertical wedge and corner edge system used for large and small numbers.
it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Numbers.html
- Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)
Digital archive of texts, images, and maps that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
timea.rice.edu
- Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE
Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/mesopotamia-contracts.html
- Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources
From Restoring Christian Keys.
www.piney.com/BabIndex.html
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon@
Read about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the terraced gardens that are often named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Browse descriptions of the Gardens from ancient travelers and modern archaeologists, and see artists' renderings of how they might have appeared.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World/Hanging_Gardens_of_Babylon
- Woolley and the Great Flood
Examines the Mesopotamian flood tradition.
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm
- History of the Ancient Near East
Offers details about sites in ancient Israel, Iraq, Turkey, and elsewhere.
ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html
- Tower of Babel@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Ziggurats/Tower_of_Babel
- Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Persian_Empire/Cyrus_the_Great__590_529_BCE_
- Ancient Babylonia: The Ziggurats
Huge stepped structures that were one of the most important aspects of Babylonian religion and tradition.
www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaThe_Ziggurat.htm
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Assyria
Covering geography, sources of Assyro-Babylonian history, and other topics.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007c.htm
- National Security Archive: Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
Offers an electronic briefing on U.S. relations with Iraq from 1980-1984.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82
- Ur@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Sumeria/Ur
- Ancient Iran - Persepolis - Persia
Includes a timeline, information on the Persian Wars, and Cyrus the Great.
www.crystalinks.com/iran.html
- Counting in Babylon
Weights, measures, numbering systems, fractions, and more.
www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lectures/babylon.html
- Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria
From the Ancient History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-babylon.html
- Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Prime_Ministers/Ben_Gurion__David__1886_1973_
- Assyrian Kings List
Presented by Assyria Online.
www.aina.org/aol/kinglist
- Encyclopedia of the Orient: Six-Day War
Includes hypertext links to background information on the countries that were involved.
i-cias.com/e.o/sixdaywr.htm
- Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza (1919-1980)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Pahlavi__Mohammed_Reza__1919_1980_
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